Artist Statement
Indelible experience. I am making paintings of subjective images based on Skype conversations. Hinged on the digital distortion of this moment: portraits on the telephone. The paintings are memory grabs of a transitory experience and a speculation about the remote environment produced under the condition of the voyeur's physical distance. People and interiors surge in this virtual space, an entity of the real, the artificial, and begin to take on strange forms, distorting, changing, reflecting the surge condition.
Looking at what humans surround themselves in to rearticulate the architecture and reconstruct the figure, absence / presence. Unhidden, no-where places, observations of arrangements and the staging of the space. I propose the portraits and the interiors as a conflation of concrete and atmospheric pathos.
I am attracted to the series as a way of rearranging relationships of marks, forms and color. Changing the way you see-- natural but not naturalistic. The color working with is: non-optical, non-scientific, non-decorative, and non-local, I use color that has a personal resonance.
Connected by economy of scale, the tension between image and description, painting soft forms and hard forms. I’m embracing active edges to feel the rhythm of the surface. I let large brush strokes be decisive to unhide places, I enjoy rapid discovery and letting the painting create its own mood, grounded in intuition.